Francesca Padovani
@frap98.bsky.social
2nd year PhD Student at @gronlp.bsky.social 🐮 - University of Groningen
Language Acquisition - NLP
Language Acquisition - NLP
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📣 I'm hiring 📣
Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier"
Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD
📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026
Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier"
Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD
📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026
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December 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📣 I'm hiring 📣
Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier"
Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD
📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026
Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier"
Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD
📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026
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👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Natural Language Processing
How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...
www.rug.nl
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Reposted by Francesca Padovani
The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io
Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉
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Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!🌴Stay tuned for more details!✨
@byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!🌴Stay tuned for more details!✨
@byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social
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📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸
Keynotes by
@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social
More info to follow #IASL26
Keynotes by
@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social
More info to follow #IASL26
July 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸
Keynotes by
@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social
More info to follow #IASL26
Keynotes by
@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social
More info to follow #IASL26
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data?
Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!
Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!
“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models
Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data?
Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!
Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!
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Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
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...ii) a direct quality reward from a teacher model, and iii) a reward based on the log probabilities of a teacher model (and its dialogue continuations). While these rewards did not improve our models performance, two different DPO approaches did!
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
...ii) a direct quality reward from a teacher model, and iii) a reward based on the log probabilities of a teacher model (and its dialogue continuations). While these rewards did not improve our models performance, two different DPO approaches did!
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As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
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Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
March 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
When: December 18–19, 2025
Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025
Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
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Jane Goodall (1934-2025) 🤍
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Jane Goodall (1934-2025) 🤍
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My very first book review is out now 📚
Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇
Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇
It's been a while since I've written a book review - here's our review of Herbst & Hoffmann (2024), my first but definitely not last collaboration with the brilliant @bbunzeck.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S136... ($)
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadel...
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadel...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My very first book review is out now 📚
Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇
Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 🎉
We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.
For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.
For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Vacatures bij de RUG
www.rug.nl
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 🎉
We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.
For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.
For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫
The 𝗜𝗟𝗖𝗕 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 in Marseille went beyond all my expectations! 💯
A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩🎨
A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩🎨
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The 𝗜𝗟𝗖𝗕 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 in Marseille went beyond all my expectations! 💯
A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩🎨
A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩🎨
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We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘
We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘
We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘
We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘
We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
Reposted by Francesca Padovani
Rowena Garcia is presenting research at #ISB15 showing that #crosslinguistic #priming occurs across #typologically unrelated languages & without overlap of constituent order. The degree of overlap modulated the magnitude of the effect.
#Tagalog #Indonesian #English
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
#Tagalog #Indonesian #English
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Rowena Garcia is presenting research at #ISB15 showing that #crosslinguistic #priming occurs across #typologically unrelated languages & without overlap of constituent order. The degree of overlap modulated the magnitude of the effect.
#Tagalog #Indonesian #English
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
#Tagalog #Indonesian #English
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
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#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
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Fabulous blog about screentime from Gonzales, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek here 1/ childandfamilyblog.com/children-and...
Children & Digital Technology | The Controversies
In this guide we discuss and make practical recommendations for parents on children's use of digital technology.
childandfamilyblog.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Fabulous blog about screentime from Gonzales, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek here 1/ childandfamilyblog.com/children-and...
Reposted by Francesca Padovani
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language
acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing,
and artificial intelli...
www.cell.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Excited to welcome a new member to the family of language-specific BLiMPs 🎊 this time putting Turkish in the spotlight!
Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!
Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!
Proud to introduce TurBLiMP, the 1st benchmark of minimal pairs for free-order, morphologically rich Turkish language!
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13487
Fruit of an almost year-long project by amazing MS student @ezgibasar.bsky.social in collab w/ @frap98.bsky.social and @jumelet.bsky.social
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13487
Fruit of an almost year-long project by amazing MS student @ezgibasar.bsky.social in collab w/ @frap98.bsky.social and @jumelet.bsky.social
TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
We introduce TurBLiMP, the first Turkish benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs, designed to evaluate the linguistic abilities of monolingual and multilingual language models (LMs). Covering 16 linguis...
arxiv.org
June 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Excited to welcome a new member to the family of language-specific BLiMPs 🎊 this time putting Turkish in the spotlight!
Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!
Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!
“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models
Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...
arxiv.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689